Help needed with dvd menu's

Can somebody help me? I often have DVD's which are on a dvd-9 and i want to put it on a dvd-5 but i want to keep the original menu. If i just rip the main movie and put back the original video_ts.vob and it's *.ifo and *.bup it doesn't work. Can somebody please tell me how to rip the main movie and still keep the original menu without the intro's and the extra features but with it's scene selection? :confused:

I did that, but the problem with this is that it doesn't give me the preview. It gives me an error! Something about intializing the audio-streams? Maybe you know how to change this? And very much thnx for your help so far!!! :D

Go straight to to the download section. Find the Filters and download the Audiofilters. If the problem persists, then try the Elecard MPEG Video Decoder. This will work fine. Keep on rockin' :p

Thnx for the tip! I'll try it right away... :D

Rip the complete dvd to a VIDEO_TS file. Then in ifoedit open the video_ts file and click DVD play like they said above. AFter the movies starts click exit. ifoedit will tell you what titlesets were played. for example in Remember the Titans there are: video_ts.ifo/bup/vob vts_01_0.ifo/bup/vob vts_02 vts_03 vts_04 vts_05 vts_06 vts_07 vts_08 after playing several seconds of the movie it said that vts02, vts08, and vts01 were played. vts01 is the movie so the trailers, previews, fbi warnings are in vts2 and vts8. You need to edit those 2.

what if main movie is bigger than a dvdr then? how do i strip-remux and still keep original menus? thanks

My home dvd player witll not play any DVD-R movie without menus. I can backup a DVD5 movie and it will work fine but if i strip down a DVD9 with just the movie only it will not play but will on other dvd players.

what are u authoring with rubberman? u do know u need to set "first play" to chapter 1? thanks

KYUSS: I use Smartripper to rip, ifoedit to strip, and Stomp to burn. The DVD9s that i strip w/o menus will work but not on my home DVD player. What do you mean, "u do know u need to set "first play" to chapter 1? " thanks

its just that some authoring proggys require u to tell the dvd where to start when its put in a dvd player ie:menu1 or movie 1 chapter 1 i'm not an expert m8 but i use maestro mostly and this requires u to do this......never tried 1 with out that set to first play movie 1 chapter 1 so i don't know if this would cause it not to "start" at the movie in my dvd player. cheers